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Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but were said to have "dwindled" [15] or "died down" [16] by spring of 2023.
Sporadic protests continued in Iran on Sunday amid a widespread crackdown by security forces a year after a young Kurdish woman's death in custody set off some of the worst political unrest in ...
Widespread discontent over the cratering economy, years of mass protests rocking the country, and tensions with the West over Tehran's nuclear program and Iran's support for Russia in its war on ...
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have put down unrest in the country’s Kurdish areas for decades and many Kurdish activists have been sentenced to long jail terms or death.
Iran has experienced numerous nationwide protests and civil unrest since 2016, including the 2016 Cyrus the Great Revolt, 2017–2018 Iranian protests, 2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 protests (in January 2020).
A view of the Iran solidarity protest in Berlin on 22 October 2022 organized by Hamed Esmaeilion. Anti-government protests took place in 24 cities in 18 provinces around Iran. [144] Anti-government strikes by merchants and other workers were held in ten cities in seven provinces. [144]
At least eight people were killed and dozens more were injured after a large fire broke out at a notorious prison housing political prisoners and anti-governmen
Arab separatism in Khuzestan [3] is a decades-long separatist Arab movement in the western part of the Khuzestan Province in Iran.. From the 1920s to the early 2020s, tensions have often resulted in violence and attempted separatism by Khuzestani Arabs, including the insurgency in 1979, unrest in 2005, terrorist bombings in 2005–2006, protests in 2011, assassinations in 2017, and the 2018 ...